When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
ISAAC ASIMOVNo sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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